Why Do Countries Prosper?
CAMBRIDGE – Each fall, a telephone call from Stockholm launches one or a few scholars to international fame with the bestowal of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences –…
Nobel Prize
2024 Nobel Prizes: Nuclear Disarmament, Korean Literature, and the Global Impact of Institutional Quality
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is expected to reignite discussions around nuclear disarmament, emphasizing the devastating effects of nuclear weapons and the need for further steps toward their elimination. The…
Han Kang, Nobel Prize and Triumph of Idealism
South Korean Nobel laureate Han Kang has declined to celebrate and refused to address a press conference after winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature, citing the deaths, destitution, pain,…
Who Deserves a Nobel Peace Prize in Ukraine?
by Ariel Gold and Medea Benjamin In what was described as a harsh rebuke of Russia, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Ukrainian human rights organization Center…
Empty Gestures or Substantive Change? On the Nobel Prize in Literature and Its Discontents
The fact that Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature is welcome news, especially as the Swedish Academy is historically known for lacking in diversity,…
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